Lester Abernathy (Earth-85)

Captain Nazi
Earth-85‎
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Real Name	Lester Abernathy
Main Alias	Captain Nazi
Affiliation	The Sons of Valhalla
Base Of Operations	Aryan Acres, San Francisco
Status
Alignment	Bad
Citizenship	American
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Blue
Hair	Blond
Origin
Universe	Earth-85
Creators	Roy Thomas · Dann Thomas · Rick Stasi
First Appearance	Action Comics #624 (November, 1988)
Last Appearance	Action Comics #626 (November, 1988)

Maybe Lester Abernathy volunteered for your little experiment -- but he's history. Captain Nazi took his place -- and I don't take orders -- I give 'em!

— Captain Nazi

Captain Nazi was a white supremacist extremist, an enemy of Captain Marvel

History

Lester Abernathy was a member of the neo-Nazi group, Sons of Valhalla, based near San Francisco. The white supremacist group had a summer camp called Aryan Acres used to indoctrinate young boys into hating people of Jewish or African descent, which also housed a secure meeting facility for the adults. It was there that Lester volunteered to be the human test subject for Dr. Patterson's Formula X serum which turned him into Captain Nazi.

When the Sons of Valhalla planned to "cleanse" San Francisco by having the boys poison the water with cyanide, Captain Nazi was not happy to be left out of the plan. Impatient to test his new powers on Captain Marvel, Captain Nazi defied the others, resulting in an explosion at the compound. He flew off to find the bus carrying the boys, but instead found Billy Batson—who was undercover at Aryan Acres—tied up and gagged. Not knowing Baston had been exposed and left to die, Captain Nazi removed his gag and immediately faced Captain Marvel. Confused and off guard, Captain Nazi was sucker-punched into a hilltop before Captain Marvel dropped a mountain on top of him in order to keep him from pursuing him to the reservoir. When Marvel returned, Captain Nazi had already left, carving a note in the rock face with his finger, Wait till next time.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Formula X Enhanced Physiology: Captain Nazi was given superhuman abilities from Formula X.
  • Superhuman Strength: He could easily punch through a concrete wall. His fists were dubbed the "twin hammers of Thor."
  • Invulnerability: He could withstand gunfire. Said to have the invulnerability of Odin. He was not affected by fire either and survived a mountain being dropped on him.
  • Superhuman Reflexes: He could catch a bullet fired without warning.
  • Flight: He could fly "like Sleipner."
  • Heat Vision: Dubbed, "the eyes of Surtur."

Other Characteristics

• Irrational Hatred
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Alpha Wave Belt: Activated whenever Captain Marvel was within 100 miles to track or avoid him.

Notes

• Unlike prior and later depictions of Captain Nazi, Abernathy is currently the only version who became Captain Nazi in then-contemporary times, instead of during World War II.
• This version of Captain Nazi, along with other elements from Shazam!: The New Beginning miniseries have been retconned by Jerry Ordway's The Power of Shazam! series. See Earth-85.

Related

• 3 Appearances of Lester Abernathy (Earth-85)
• 1 Images featuring Lester Abernathy (Earth-85)
• 1 Quotations by or about Lester Abernathy (Earth-85)
• Character Gallery: Lester Abernathy (Earth-85)

Footnotes

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